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Posted By: Hal Brown
Date Posted: Feb 25, 2014
Description: You just know it’s gonna be a good day when the sky and water are this kind of beautiful blue. The only trouble of note is that the bay is within a common frequency broadcast zone. Try announcing your position is Whangaparaoa Bay! Hint: 'Wh' sounds like 'F'.
Date Taken: Feb 25, 2014
Place Taken: Whangaparaoa Bay, NZ
Owner: Dan Nickens
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Category: 446, Yacht Tending NZ
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Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    If only a big yacht would fit into such perfect water….how easy would that be?      Attachments:  

Perfect Water.jpg
Perfect Water

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Nicely warped rocks are evidence of a twisted geological past.      Attachments:  

Rock Art.jpg
Rock Art

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    The blue water, green trees, and grey stripped rock makes for some pretty good natural art.      Attachments:  

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Connected Art

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Did some ancient giant race lose one of their barber poles?      Attachments:  

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Relic Barber Pole

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Like a green thumb sticking out into the big blue ocean…      Attachments:  

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Green Thumb

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Cargo deliveries of the day: Organic Milk, Rare Blonde Beer. Sadly, I was missing the Sheep Milk Yogurt. They could have sent me across the Tasman Sea to Australia to get some, but apparently the guests were distracted by other things.<br /><br />I wasn’t much tempted to cross the Tasman Sea after reading about the adventures of Sir Francis Chichester. He took off from New Zealand to Sydney in an 80 hp Gypsy Moth on floats back in 1931. Here is one of his entries<br /><br />'Wireless gone, compass, instruments breaking one by one, navigation 26 miles out somewhere - perhaps double as much, plane gradually breaking up, propeller so strained by its out-of-true wobbling that it was bound to collapse sooner or later - it was only a case of time, and now, my God! bad weather.'<br /><br />Of course it got better….<br /> <br />'The clouds were becoming darker, heavier, lowering. The plane was scudding over the rising, roughening seas at great pace, with the wind nearly behind.'<br /><br />And before reaching Sydney his airplane sank at Lord Howe Island and he had a close encounter with a UFO.<br /> <br />Francis Chichester, 'Alone Over the Tasman Sea'<br /><br />      Attachments:  

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Daily Deliveries

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Weather the following day was subject to a highly suspicious forecast. Low clouds were visible on the horizon (an advantage of an upper floor room is the far view it affords). The helicopter pilot had been out flying early and said it was good along the coast. There is nothing like an experienced weather observer to give confidence to a wary weather flyer, right? As I learned, allowances have to be made for helicopter pilots.      Attachments:  

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Questionable Start

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    Instead of heeding the helicopter pilot, I took a more direct course. The weather I found on my short cut didn’t inspire confidence. I sent a quick message to the helicopter pilot to confirm the weather ahead. “It’s great here. You did follow the coast, right?”      Attachments:  

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Questionable Course

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    The weather was not nearly so questionable with water underneath.      Attachments:  

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Unquestionable Relief

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    The Bay of Islands is a pretty big place, with plenty of hiding places even for a big boat. The search was on. I had clues. Look for the worst possible place for SeaRey operations. The SuRi was sure to be nearby!      Attachments:  

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Searching for SuRi

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    The SuRi is a high visibility target. Sure enough, all I had to do is look in the most inhospitable places for SeaRey operations to find her. Even a thousand feet up I could see the swell wrapping around SuRi’s “protected” parking place.<br />      Attachments:  

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Hard to Hide

    
  
Dan Nickens - Feb 25,2014   Viewers  | Reply
    There is no hiding from the weather when it rolls in. The only hope is to roll out before it arrives. My other hope was to get back to where I started the suspicious day before it got seriously bad.<br /><br />Sticking to the coast made for a bumpy ride but there were no rocks hidden in the clouds. Sigh. Just another rough, wet day at the SuRi SeaRey office.<br />      Attachments:  

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No Hiding

    


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